Presented in Harwell-Oxford at the 40th CEOS WGISS Meeting hosted by Catapult /UKSA

1. NASA WWEC 2015
3rd World Wind Europa Challenge for apps
using NASA’s open source platform
M.A.Brovelli (PoliMiComo), P.Hogan (NASA), G.Remetey-Fülöpp (Hunagi)
All Members, Scientific Committee, WWEC 2015
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Source: NASA

2. ¡ Open source platform for analysis and visualisation
¡ WWEC – a flashback
¡ The WWEC 2015
¡ Beyond WWEC 2015
¡ Conclusions and Acknowledgements
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Outline

3. ¡ Summer School in Como,
2012 Hosted by PoliMiComo
Prof. Maria A. Brovelli
¡ Setting the specifications and rules
for WWEC with experts and
students from all over the world N.
(N.B. Hungary was represented by 6)
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NASA WWEC – a flashback
The start

4. ¡ 1st WWEC in 2013
INSPIRE Conference,
Florence
(over 600 participants)
¡ 2nd WWEC in 2014
1st FOSS4G Europe
Conference in Bremen
(at Jacobs University with over 250
participants)
¡ 3rd WWEC in 2015
2nd FOSS4G Europe
Conference in Como
(at Politecnico Milano Como Campus
with over 400 participants)
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NASA WWEC – a flashback
Yearly award ceremonies
(FOSS4G=Free and
Open Source Software
for Geospatial)

5. The NASA WWEC 2015
Evaluation criteria with max scores allocated
¡ Sophistication: Level of difficulty, number of functions, data
accessibility, degree of challenge to data analysis. 20
¡ Performance: Given the amount of data being digested and
viewed, in 3D and more intensely in 4D, does the performance
appear effective at delivering that data? The more data being
managed, the more impressive the program’s ability to deliver it,
i.e., 4D > 3D alone. 20
¡ Intuitive, efficient, allowing control over data selection, time series,
etc. 20
¡ Website: Documentation sufficient and effective. 20
¡ Idea: How compelling is the application purpose? Do you see the
application providing significant value to the community being
served? 10
¡ Outreach: Any coordination with other University departments,
outside agencies or the actual user community? 10
GSDI Liaison’s report for CEOS WGISS 39 Meeting hosted by JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan, 11-15 May, 2015

6. ¡ NASA World Wind Europa Challenge 2015
¡ Deadline: June 1, 2015. Details:
¡ Evaluation by international board (JRC, FAO, NASA etc)
¡ NASA WWEC 2015 Award Ceremony for university teams and
professionals at the 2nd FOSS4G Europe Conference, Como, July , 2015
¡ Submitted Applications (as of 15 May)
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NASA WWEC 2015
Roadmap
eurochallenge.como.polimi.it
The Crystall Bull Prize
GeoSim
Cloud-based 5D-
Geovisualization
University of Denver
wGlobe: Interactive
Visualization/Analysis
of Spatial Data
State University of
New York at Buffalo
LiDAR Data
Visualization
and Analysis
University of Kansas
Global Earthquake
Forecast System
Trillium Learning &
Kodiak Island
Borough District
Wildfire
Management Tool
also with Web Version
EMXSYS
Navigational
Knowledge
Extraction from
Crowd Trajectories
Univers. of Nottingham
ZEUS Easy Track
Krisztián Fehér
wwwOSM
Web World Wind –
OpenStreetMap
Trilogis srl
Steady-State
Water Rise
4D Visualization
International Institute of
Information Technology,
Hyderabad

7. Kodiak High School, Alaska
Educator: Ron Fortunato
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Kodiak High School’s own site :
http://www.edlinesites.net/pages/America_Bridge_Project/Europa_Challenge
The open hardware and software Global Earthquake Forecast System
they generated and are ready to share, is there providing live data,
http://gefs.trilliumlearning.com/ It identifies earthquakes several hours
to a couple days before the event. Including identifying the location of
the earthquake’s hypocenter at depth, all before it happens.
www.aWorldBridge.com
Winner of the WWEC 2015
First Prize in Academic Track

8. Technology Exploration Interest Group, CEOS WGISS-40 hosted by UK Space Agency, Harwell Oxford, England, UK 28 Sept – 2 Oct, 2015
Winners of the WWEC 2015
In Academic Track

9. Technology Exploration Interest Group, CEOS WGISS-40 hosted by UK Space Agency, Harwell Oxford, England, UK 28 Sept – 2 Oct, 2015
Winners of the WWEC 2015
Professional Track

10. ¡ The 2009 NASA software of the year award
¡ Prime developer Tom Gaskins, sole-author of the bible on computer
graphics over 20 years ago, actually two of them (at a 1,000 pages
each) http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/280.
¡ The developing team at NASA ARC is very experienced
¡ Capable to work on every platform: .NET, Java, Android, iOS, and
now the most work will go into the JavaScript web version.
¡ Many US Government agencies use WorldWind, particularly the Air
Force. And the US Federal Aviation Agency (FAA)has standardized
on WorldWind, they are using WWj now but plan to begin using
WebWorldWind next. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/temp/faa/NESAT3DDemo.mp4
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NASA World Wind
A sound open-source base for development and apps

11. Recently two European and one Australian government
agencies are standardizing on WebWorldWind
¡ In Europe
The EU’s ‘big data portal’ effort, www.EarthServer.eu
E.G. JACOBS UNIVERSITY
The European Weather Forecast Service, www.ecmwf.int
.
To be mentioned: the European Space Agency
Two full-time developers now embedded In the NASA team, to
advance KML GeoJSON, analytic surface, annotations, etc. (Pier
Giorgio Marchetti is also involved)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/piergiorgiomarchetti
¡ In Australia
Australia Nat'l Computational Infrastructure, www.nci.org.au
.
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Beyond WWEC 2015
Commitments for WebWorldWind worldwide

12. ¡ At United Nations Institutions
Per their request, meeting with the UNOSAT lead, Dr. Einar Bjorgo, at
ESRIN mid-October regarding their interest in WebWorldWind
www.unitar.org/unosat.
Similar purpose but separate meeting has already been arranged
with UNECE regarding their interest in WebWorldWind.
The UN FAO has a version of WorldWind Android installed on several
hundred ToughPads that operate in the field throughout North Africa
to track locust activity as part of www.fao.org/ag/locusts/
There will be a WebWorldWind Workshop at the ESA/ESRIN
www.EOScience20.org meeting in Frascati October 15 as part of the
Hackathon, with the World Wind Chief Architect and Lead Developer.
It is a great (and free) opportunity to learn more about
WebWorldWind
Looking for new government agencies as partners/users. Their
interests are maximally served. (Patrick Hogan, Project Manager, NASA ARC)Technology Exploration Interest Group, CEOS WGISS-40 hosted by UK Space Agency, Harwell Oxford, England, UK 28 Sept – 2 Oct, 2015
Beyond WWEC 2015
Commitments for WebWorldWind worldwide

13. Technology Exploration Interest Group, CEOS WGISS-40 hosted by UK Space Agency, Harwell Oxford, England, UK 28 Sept – 2 Oct, 2015
Beyond WWEC 2015
Wide range of best practices, basic applications
Here are a couple very basic demo ‘apps’:
http://188.166.37.211:8089/examples/GeoJSON.html
http://188.166.37.211:8088/examples/AnalyticalSurface.html
http://worldwind.dimaestro.cz/index.html
And more examples here:
http://webworldwind.org/examples/
Example for how easy it is to deliver data (time series included):
Using http://worldwindserver.net/webworldwind/apps/Explorer.html
then copy this URL to “Add new server”:
http://apps.ecmwf.int/wms/?token=MetOceanIE
Keep this CORS issue in mind as you leverage WMS-compliant servers:
http://webworldwind.org/developers-guide/common-problems/

14. ¡ Showcase at the
2nd FOSS4G Europe Conference
in Como
Hungary was represented by academic institutions (M. Cserép of ELTE, E. Wirth and Z.Siki of BME), NGO (G.
Remetey of HUNAGI) private sector (Cs.Sándor, G.Márta of ViaMap Ltd) and governmental organisation (A.
Olasz and K.Takács of FÖMI), one expert from OVF and B. Simó of MFGI
¡ Annual FOSS4G.HU Meeting foss4g.hu
Department of Geodesy and Surveying
Budapest University of
Technology and Economics
November 27, 2015
For more information: siki.zoltan [at] epito.bme.hu
Open source tools used for RS/EO: GRASS and QGIS are supported by OSGeo,
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Beyond WWEC 2015
Open source in Hungary
Hungarian
Presenters
included
M.Cserép
Z.Siki
K.Fehér,
K.Takács

15. Technology Exploration Interest Group, CEOS WGISS-40 hosted by UK Space Agency, Harwell Oxford, England, UK 28 Sept – 2 Oct, 2015
HUNAGI member presented at the WWEC 2015
ZEUS Easy Track by Krisztián Fehér
http://feherkrisztian.magix.net/public/easy/vision.html
Vision: ZEUS Easy track's goal is to give
the possibility to everyone to create
custom, universal real-time tracking
and analysis systems for nearly no
extra cost.
Potential app areas, which can be
Supported include
- transport, - public traffic
- law enforcement,- defense
- disaster management, - logistics
- traffic analysis,- airplane tracking
- sports and outdoor activities
- remote supporting activities.
Result of a 4 man-year development
Features: opensource, website
contains manual, detailed info on
architecture, real-world examples,
Download and setup, sourcecode

16. ¡ Why industry and government especially, should be
moving ahead with WorldWind?
¡ WebWW: a competitive platform for innovative solution
¡ e.g. if combined with JRC’s energy evaluation tools,
European cities could make the most of JESSICA
http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/index.cfm/EN/funding/special-support-instruments/jessica/
¡ Capable for proposals serving MYGEOSS, also known as
GEOSS Data-CORE element:
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/mygeoss-first-call-innovative-apps-environmental-and-social-domains,
http://digitalearthlab.jrc.ec.europa.eu/mygeoss/index.cfm
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Conclusions

17. Patrick Hogan, NASA Ames RC, Moffet Field
patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
Prof.Maria.A. Brovelli, Politecnico Milano at Como
maria.brovelli@polimi.it
Marco Negretti WWEC Website Manager (PoliMiComo)
Dr. Zoltán Siki, Budapest Univrsity of Technology and
Economics
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Acknowledgements

18. Thank you for your attention!
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